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BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Acronis, Inc. (
http://www.acronis.com ), the leader in storage management software,
announced it has joined the Red Hat ISV Partner Program, which offers
software vendors the opportunity to easily access the tools and resources
necessary to develop and test their applications on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux, the leading platform for open source computing. Acronis has also
joined as a Red Hat Ready Partner.

By joining the Red Hat ISV Partner Program and the Red Hat Ready
Partner Program, Acronis will take advantage of the program's co-marketing
and co-branding offerings to bring its Acronis True Image Server for Linux
products to the global community of Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers.

"Acronis recognizes the exceptional technology developed by Red Hat and
that is why Acronis incorporates a customized version of the Red Hat kernel
in our emergency boot disks," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Becoming
a partner with Red Hat formalizes a relationship that has been ongoing for
years. Acronis and Red Hat bring together some of the most advanced
technology for the enterprise IT infrastructure."

"Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the clear choice for an open source
enterprise platform," said Zorian Rotenberg, director of business
development of Acronis. "By taking a snapshot of the Linux system, Acronis
True Image Server for Linux enables Red Hat Linux users to protect and
recover their data, whether it's an individual file or an entire operating
system, in minutes instead of hours or days."

About Acronis

Acronis offers storage management solutions that are technically
advanced for mission-critical applications and easy to use. The company
provides disaster recovery, backup and restore, partitioning, data
migration and other storage management product for enterprises,
corporations and consumers. A global company Acronis has offices in the
United States, Europe and Asia and sells its products both direct and
through resellers and retail outlets. For additional information, please
visit http://www.acronis.com or contact Senior Director of Strategic
Marketing Stephen Lawton at media@acronis.com.

About Red Hat, Inc.

Red Hat, the world's leading open source solutions provider, is
headquartered in Raleigh, NC with satellite offices spanning the globe. The
most trusted name in open source, CIOs and other senior-level IT executives
have ranked Red Hat as the industry's most valued vendor for two
consecutive years in the CIO Insight Magazine Vendor Value study. Red Hat
is leading Linux and open source solutions into the mainstream by making
high quality, low cost technology accessible. Red Hat provides operating
system software along with middleware, applications and management
solutions. Red Hat also offers support, training and consulting services to
its customers worldwide and through top-tier partnerships. Red Hat's open
source strategy offers customers a long term plan for building
infrastructures that are based on and leverage open source technologies
with focus on security and ease of management. Learn more:
http://www.redhat.com .

Forward-Looking Statements

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans
and prospects for the Company, including statements containing the words
"believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar
expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements
as a result of various important factors, including: the factors discussed
in our most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC (a copy
of which may be accessed through the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov ),
reliance upon strategic relationships, management of growth, the
possibility of undetected software errors, the risks of economic downturns
generally, and in Red Hat's industry specifically, the risks associated
with competition and competitive pricing pressures and the viability of the
Internet. In addition, the forward-looking statements included in this
press release represent the Company's views as of the date of this press
release and these views could change. However, while the Company may elect
to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, the
Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so. These
forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the
Company's views as of any date subsequent to the date of the press release.